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Articles 17121 through 17220 of 27558:
- A Reluctant Stowaway (Tribune, Trilochan Singh Trewn, Sep 08, 2001)
DURING those days I used to stay in Dhanraj Mahal close to the Gateway of India and happened to have some preliminary knowledge of spoken Japanese.
- Constitution And People’s Will (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 08, 2001)
FOR far too long, wily politicians have been trampling on the spirit of the law by focussing only on its letter.
- Lashkar-E-Jhangvi: The Zia Connection (Tribune, Syed Nooruzzaman, Sep 08, 2001)
SECTARIAN and ethnic terrorism is a hotly debated subject in Pakistan these days. And the most dreaded outfit, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, one of the groups recently banned, consumes the maximum time and energy during such discussions.
- Ten Per Cent Dream (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 08, 2001)
Ideas alone will not pull the economy out of its stupor.
- Mahanta's Exit (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 07, 2001)
THE RESIGNATION OF Mr. Prafulla Kumar Mahanta both as president of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) and as leader of the party's legislature wing may have saved him the embarrassment of being asked by the general body to quit.
- ‘Daily Allowance For Mps Is Unbecoming’ (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 07, 2001)
The recent pay hike which Members of Parliament have given themselves has provoked considerable outrage.
- Conditionalities Come To Roost (The Economic Times, Soumya Kanti Mitra, Sep 07, 2001)
FROM what used to resemble the reign of an absentee landlord in a faux feudal setting, the IMF is now aiming to become a friendly interlocutor.
- The Political Risks Of Further Dividing The Divided (The Economic Times, Narendar Pani, Sep 07, 2001)
IT IS now quite clear that reservations will play a crucial role in the BJP’s strategy for survival in Uttar Pradesh.
- Tehelka: What Next? (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Sep 07, 2001)
TEHELKA'S INVESTIGATIONS open up important questions relating to the media. Tehelka-I uncovered incipient corruption in defence deals through covert uses of pin-hole cameras.
- Still In The Trough (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 07, 2001)
When will the gloom and doom in the economy disappear and what will be the gross domestic product growth in 2001-02?
- Frozen At The Core (Telegraph, Chandrashekar Dasgupta, Sep 07, 2001)
When the prime minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee meets General Pervez Musharraf at the United Nations later this month, the Pakistan president will once again insist that Kashmir is the “core issue” in India-Pakistan relations.
- Relief That Kills (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Sep 07, 2001)
LET us remember some forgotten words of our daily discourse.
- A Janus-Like Government (Tribune, Hari Jaisingh, Sep 07, 2001)
AFTER riding high on popular support, the BJP-led NDA government headed by Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee appears to have betrayed the people.
- Police Power & Responsibilities (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 07, 2001)
THE task of security forces has always been a delicate one.
- ‘Kashmiri Women Don’t Need Morality Lessons’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 07, 2001)
Mehbooba Mufti, the fire-brand leader of Kashmir’s opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), adopted the abaya after she joined politics.
- Abm By Other Means (Hindu, Pran Chopra , Sep 07, 2001)
IN DEALING with the U.S. plans for a missile defence system (NMD), the Russian President, Mr. Vladimir Putin, has shown, together, various qualities which he has shown, one by one, in dealing with other tricky situations.
- Get Rid Of The Pak Fixation (Indian Express, Saeed Naqvi, Sep 07, 2001)
When the mind is crowded with petty thoughts, Ghalib said, step out of the house and travel so that the narrow vision ‘‘opens up with the abundance of the spectacle’’.
- Edits Brought To You By... (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 07, 2001)
Just kidding, but sponsorship has touched literature.
- Convenor’s Con (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 07, 2001)
By George, this is no way to re-enter the Cabinet.
- In Gujarat, The Bjp Govt’s Road Not Taken (Indian Express, Darshan Desai, Sep 07, 2001)
A RULE free from ‘‘fear, hunger and corruption’’. It was this slogan that powered the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a massive mandate to rule Gujarat for the first time in 1995 and then again in 1998.
- Panchayat Planning May Be Made Mandatory For Plan Allocation (The Financial Express, Joseph Vackayil, Sep 07, 2001)
The Planning Commission is working on a system to ensure that states adhere to the demand-driven micro-level planning process by making District Planning Committees (DPCs) operational.
- Trp-Edoed (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 07, 2001)
SO, HAS THE advertising industry been sold a lemon all along?
- Shanghai (Non) Surprise: It’s All About The Economy (Indian Express, Sonia Trikha, Sep 07, 2001)
ON the eve of its entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO), China will host the Asia Pacific Economic Council (APEC) summit next month.
- The Soul Of The New Consumer (The Economic Times, David Lewis, Sep 07, 2001)
SPIRITUALITY has become an all-purpose description of what people feel to be missing from their lives rather than of what they hope to discover.
- Go That Extra Mile (The Economic Times, A. Srikantaiah, Sep 07, 2001)
YOUR front page report (ET, August 14) on the impressive growth in the farm sector’s foreign trade balance is heartening indeed.
- Policy-Induced Recession Chokes Growth Potential (The Financial Express, R.K. Roy, Sep 07, 2001)
Six years ago, it was fondly believed that India’s growth potential was over 8 per cent. With an annual 6.5-7 per cent growth, India was an under-achiever.
- When Capital Markets Fail (The Economic Times, Jeffrey D Sachs, Sep 07, 2001)
A CENTRAL argument for capitalism is that capital markets efficiently channel savings to the most profitable investments.
- Prognosis Of A Slowdown (Business Line, Abhimanyu, Sep 07, 2001)
A COUNTRY facing an economic slowdown is like a patient who is ill because of lack of appetite.
- Railway Privatisation Is Not An Easy Proposition (The Financial Express, A. V. Poulose, Sep 07, 2001)
Analysing the Rakesh Mohan Experts Group’s key recommendations to corporatise Indian Railways (IR) and separate policy from operations.
- Media's Duty (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 07, 2001)
ONE of the terms of reference included in the order of the Tamil Nadu Government setting up the Justice Bhakthavatsalam Commission of Inquiry into the disturbances in Chennai connected with the DMK rally on August 12.
- Down-Sizing A Summit? (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 07, 2001)
THE WILD FLUCTUATIONS of the diplomatic mood in both India and Pakistan about the prospects of a constructive meeting between their leaders in New York later this month seem to suggest a disturbing trend on the bilateral front.
- India's Loss (Business Line, Timeri N. Murari , Sep 07, 2001)
I HAD a young man working for me. He was sort of a PA/accountant. He was meticulous in everything he did.
- The Man Who Gave Heart (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Sep 07, 2001)
``I DID not want to touch this girl until she was conventionally dead -- a corpse. I felt we could not put a knife into her until she was truly a cadaver.''
- Shome Report: A Job Half Done (Business Line, T. C. A. Ramanujam, Sep 07, 2001)
A FAVOURITE pastime of successive governments in India over the past decade and more has been to set up committees to examine and re-examine the tax structure to make the administration tax-payer friendly.
- Tap The Toddy (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 07, 2001)
HOW many people know how to climb a palm tree and collect toddy juice? Not many.
- Henry Viii: King And Court (Telegraph, Alison Weir, Sep 07, 2001)
The common impression of Henry VIII is that of a king who married six times and was full of bluff and hot air.
- Picture For Posterity (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 07, 2001)
The proud owner of a new Honda Activa poses for a photograph outside the showroom of Muthoot Honda, one of the two Honda Activa dealers in Kochi.
- Embarking On A Voyage Of Rediscovery -- A-Governance For India And The States (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Sep 06, 2001)
EMPIRICAL analyses contribute significantly to economic policy-making in the long run. They enable policy-makers to review the impact of past policies.
- Departure In Disgrace (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 06, 2001)
Prafulla Kumar Mahanta’s exit is a godsend for the AGP.
- Clueless On Economy (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 06, 2001)
IT would sound cynical, even needlessly critical, to say that the BJP-led alliance government is out of its depth to arrest and reverse the economic slowdown.
- Project North-East (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Sep 06, 2001)
IT IS PERTINENT to ask if the Home Minister, Mr L. K. Advani, realised the implications of what he said at the 45th meeting of the North-Eastern Council (NEC) in New Delhi on September 3.
- Just Food (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 06, 2001)
Speaking up for a right cause gives the champion a kind of automatic immunity.
- No Guiding Lights (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 06, 2001)
Among those who still appear for the IAS, there is an utter lack of commitment.
- Round-Ii With Musharraf May Not Yield Much (The Financial Express, HUMA SIDDQUI, Sep 06, 2001)
Now that Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is to meet Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on the sidelines of the United Nations session in New York this month, and later at the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (Saarc) meeting.
- The Plight Of Maharaja (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 06, 2001)
THOSE engaged in the efforts aimed at transferring the management of India's international air carriers, Air-India, to private hands would have never visualised such a pathetic scenario.
- China’s Missile Supplies To Pakistan (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Sep 06, 2001)
CHINA’S unending supply to Pakistan of missiles as well as missile parts and technology has been a major problem for this country because it enhances Pakistan’s security challenge to it.
- Timely Exit (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 06, 2001)
Scandals add glamour to some careers. For others they could be rather unglamorously inconvenient.
- Ideology Into Actuality (Telegraph, Jayanti Alam, Sep 06, 2001)
“Realizing economic and social advancement at the same time” is equivalent to “ensuring the coordinated development of population, resources and environment,” comments a book on China’s “socialist market economy”.
- Acting In Harmony With Nature (Tribune, B.R. Sood, Sep 06, 2001)
TWO complimentary streams of Chinese thought, Confucianism and Taoism, developed simultaneously.
- Partners In Spite Of Themselves (Hindu, Teresita C. Schaffer, Sep 06, 2001)
AFTER SOME confusing signals, it now appears that Prime Minister Vajpayee and President Musharraf will meet at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
- God Help Those Who Can’t Help Themselve (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 06, 2001)
Despite safeguards in the Constitution and in law, certain groups remained particularly vulnerable to human rights abuses based on discrimination.
- Acid Test For Tmc Chief (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 06, 2001)
The election of Mr G K Govindavasan as the president of the Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) within two days of the death of his father and the party’s founder, Mr G K Moopanar, was not entirely unexpected.
- The Tmc And The Congress (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 06, 2001)
THE PACE AT which the Congress president, Ms. Sonia Gandhi, acted in nominating the trustees to govern the properties owned by the TNCC Trust (hitherto controlled by G. K. Moopanar and Mr. N. Ramasamy Udayar).
- Should India Say Yes To Bt Crops? (Hindu, Debashis Banerji, Sep 06, 2001)
IN JUNE this year, the Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC), set up by the Government of India for licensing genetically-modified (GM) crops, deferred the commercialisation of Bt cotton.
- ‘We Indians Are A Suspicious Lot, Envious To The Core Of Anyone Who Makes It Big’ (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 06, 2001)
As a nation, we never celebrate those who create wealth, instead our elite swears by the principle: poverty is our birthright and you shall have it.
- A Flip-Flop For The Better (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Sep 06, 2001)
The new judgment is more pragmatic as it seeks to be fair to industry as well as contract labour.
- Maha Merger (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Sep 06, 2001)
For computer majors it is a question of survival.
- Turn Off (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Sep 06, 2001)
It is true that the feudal system that still reigns in most of the towns and villages of northern and central India is almost absent in Bengal.
- Last Tango In Bihar (Indian Express, Anuradha Raman, Sep 06, 2001)
IT could have been Bihar’s first. Not since the last 15 years had the state shown its willingness to hold a film festival. But when it did say yes, the Directorate of Film Festivals (DFF) played spoiler.
- Tread With Caution (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 06, 2001)
IN a bid to boost trading volumes and liquidity, the Sebi board has given an in-principle approval to the introduction of stock futures on 31 stocks on which options have already been permitted.
- Dreams Die Twice (Indian Express, Shrikant Khandekar, Sep 06, 2001)
In Assam, Mahanta got more than one chance.
- Usa’s Somersault On Non-Proliferation Could Unsettle India (Indian Express, J. N. Dixit , Sep 06, 2001)
Two important policy decisions taken by India now become subject to doubts in the context of the likely revival of nuclear and missiles tests by the US.
- Truth Must Be Out (The Economic Times, R. S. Raghavan, Sep 06, 2001)
THE charge levelled against Mr Vajpayee by Mr D B Ray, a former BJP MP, is that the PM had been fully privy to the plot to demolish the Babri Masjid on December 5, 1992.
- Kashipur Deaths Show Utter Failure Of Welfare Schemes (The Financial Express, Dilip Bisoi, Sep 06, 2001)
Kashipur in southern Orissa, well known in corporate circles for its rich bauxite reserves, is in the news, but for the wrong reasons.
- Rating Raters (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Sep 06, 2001)
TELEVISION ratings, computed by two agencies, AC Nielsen and ORG-MARG are alleged to have been fudged to boost the ratings of some TV programmes. This is a serious charge.
- Should India Have Individual Stock Futures? (The Economic Times, L C Gupta, Sep 06, 2001)
ACTING on the recommendations of its Advisory Committee on Derivatives, headed by J R Varma, Sebi has approved in principle the introduction of individual stock futures.
- Right To Food As Fundamental Right? (The Economic Times, Prabhat Kumar, Sep 06, 2001)
AMARTYA Sen would indeed be a happy man with the Supreme Court directing the central and state governments to ensure that starving people are supplied with foodgrain.
- ‘We Are Not Opposed To Agnihotri. Nor Are We For Him’ (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Sep 06, 2001)
Late last year, the government finally woke up to the huge potential locked in non-resident Indians (NRIs) and persons of Indian origin (PIOs) across the length and breadth of the globe.
- Why India Should Support A New Trade Negotiating Round (The Financial Express, Pradeep S. Mehta, Sep 06, 2001)
The reverse countdown to the fourth World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Conference has begun without any agreement on the agenda.
- The Ibm Way (Business Line, L. Jayarangan, Sep 06, 2001)
UNTIL `benching' forced HR heads to stand up and fight, what worried them was how to make them `sit in their seats' and avoid attrition! Many spent their time in office scanning employment opportunities and e-mailing applications to the US.
- Hunger-Related Deaths Expose Skewed Food Management Policy (The Financial Express, Ashok B Sharma, Sep 06, 2001)
The paradox of reported starvation deaths in Orissa amidst mounting foodgrain stocks has once again exposed the country’s skewed food management policy.
- The Making Of A Civil Servant (Telegraph, SAHELI MITRA, Sep 06, 2001)
Yet another girl from West Bengal, Paramita Chowdhury, has made it to the toppers’ list of the civil services examination this year, but she too felt that she would probably not have passed the test had she appeared for it from her home state.
- Catching Up With The Wireless Wave? (Business Line, Prabhat Kumar, Sep 06, 2001)
THE rate cuts by the American Fed Chief have failed to energise the slowing US economy.
- Re-Activating Economy: A Mundane Approach (Business Line, N.A.Mujumdar, Sep 06, 2001)
HAS the global economic slowdown impacted the economy? National income or GDP declined to 5.2 per cent in 2000-01, well below the annual average growth of above 6 per cent during the previous three years.
- Hiring Foreign Nationals -- The Legal Underpinning (Business Line, K. Ramesh, Sep 06, 2001)
THE LEGAL framework for appointment and remuneration of foreign nationals still remains complex, despite the liberalisation post Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA).
- Focus On Public Spending (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Sep 06, 2001)
THE GOVERNMENT SEEMS to have finally zeroed in on boosting public investment as the immediate strategy for reviving a sagging economy.
- Another Mega Marriage (Tribune, Editorial, The Tribune, Sep 06, 2001)
AS competition gets stiffer, survival becomes difficult, singles look for partners and married ones split.
- Disgrace Abounding (Telegraph, SHAM LAL , Sep 06, 2001)
There is something obscene about the way the Central government has denied the fact of starvation deaths in the Kashipur taluka of Orissa, one of the most backward areas in that near-destitute state.
- The Lease Tease (Business Line, S. Murlidharan , Sep 06, 2001)
THE ACCOUNTING Standard 19 (AS 19), on leases, is mandatory and comes into force for accounting periods commencing on or after April 1, 2001.
- Embarking On A Voyage Of Rediscovery -- A-Governance For India And The States (Business Line, G. Ramachandran, Sep 06, 2001)
EMPIRICAL analyses contribute significantly to economic policy-making in the long run. They enable policy-makers to review the impact of past policies.
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